Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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